AppleTV app crashes every few minutes with experimental player enabled

[bbolton13]

I’m having the exact same issue here:

App crashing after ~30 seconds when playing HEVC 5.1 mkv movies

I’ve been having an issue since first turning on the experimental player where HEVC movies will crash the app. All I’ve tested are HEVC 1080p with 5.1 audio, either AAC, AC3, or HE-AAC. If I turn off the experimental player, I have no issues playing any of these files. I also have no issues playing 720p x265 TV show episodes with AAC stereo audio. I’ve upgraded to the latest build and the problem still exists. I saw another user with a similar issue, but for some reason I couldn’t comment o…